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HUERTA STILL A CANDIDATE, GAMBOA ASSERTS
F. DREW CAMINETTI.
were for conviction on all four counts,
but two of the jurors held out against
this steadfastly, favoring an acquit
tal. After three hours of balloting, a
compromise was reached by the two
agreeing to vote for a conviction on
only one of the counts.
The victory of the Government Is
made more spectacular from the
prominence of the men involved.
Caminetti Is from a well-known and
respected family. Diggs formerly
was the architect for the State of
California. The case was fought with
all the wealth at the command of
the affected families.
Gamboa. Minister of Foreign Af
fairs. said to-night to the corre
spondent of The Sun: “I have
never given an assurance that
President Huerta will not be a
candidate for re-election.
“Mexico's position toward the
United States has been defined
absolutely in the last note from
this Government in the negoti
ations begun by Mr. Lind. No
thing can be added to that note,
which was a full statement of
Mexico’s attitude, and this has
not varied in the least since it
was written.”
The correspondent of The Sun
endeavored to obtain a statement
from General Huerta and from
Senor Urrutia. Minister of the
Interior, but both refused to dis
cuss the matter.
•CAMINETTI, CONVICTED,!
NOT LIKELY TO APPEAL
MAURY I. DIGGS.
rjwas jgr"
Mann Act, Given Thorough Test,
Strengthened by Conviction.
Jury Compromised.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. F.
Drew Caminetti, son of the Commis
sioner General of Immigration, con
victed of violating the white slave
tence on both young menETAOIN
law, likely will not appeal his case.
The young man to-day said that the
fact that he was convicted on only-
ore of the four counts was, .in a way,
a vindication.
"I am relieved now that the long
strain is over,” said Caminetti. T
am glad the jury did not disagree and
that the mess is not to be gone over
again. I am found guilty of violating
the white slave law in taking Lola
Norris to Reno, but I am not guilty
of persuading or enticing her away.
I am not guilty of anything in con
nection with the part Marsha War
rington played in the trip to Reno.
I hope they will drop the charges of
conspiracy against me."
Caminetti. free under a $10,000
bond pending sentence by Federal
Judge Van Fleet, was cheerful to
day. The verdict of the jury made
possible a sentence of live years and
a tine of $5,009. Maurv I. Diggs, con
victed on the same charge, may be
sentenced to twenty years and a $20,-
000 fine.
The conviction of Caminetti. which
followed that of Maury I. Diggs, his
accomplice, gave the Mann white
slave act a most thorough test and
provided a sweeping victory for the
Government.
Judge Van Fleet will pronounce sen-
terce on both young men September
10
Ten of the jury in Caminetti s case
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ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1913. bt'KYWMIVc. 2 CENTS. WW
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Homeless in $10,000,000 Fire
Skeleton, Snake and
Phonograph Guard
Capitol From Theft
WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.—Superin
tendent Eliot Woods, of the Capilo!,
has hit upon a new plan to stop petty
thefts of his personal possessions.
Here are some of the devices em
ployed :
A snake hidden in his tobacco.
Small coins protected by electricity.
A skeleton at the door of Mr
Woods’ private office.
Electric wiring: on the clothes closet.
A phonograph which cries. “Dont
take that” when the would-be thief
attempts to “lift” Mr. Woods’ tools
in the laboratory.
$86,256,600 Paid on
Standard Oil Stock
NEW YORK. Sept. 6—Cash divi-
dent disbursements by the segregated
Standard Oil Companies for the third
quarter of 1913 will aggregate $14.-
728.750. These ^will bring the total for
the three quarters to $86,256,600. ac
cording to every present indication.
Disbursements of this character for
the calendar year will make a grand
total of slightly more than $100,000.-
000, representing substantially more
than 100 per cent on the outstanding
stock of the former parent company,
the. Standard Oil Company, of New
Jersey.
Steamer Grounds on
Norwalk Harbor Bar
NORWALK, CONN., Sept. 6.—The
steamer Middletown, plying betweei.
Hartford and New York, of the Hart
ford and New York Transportation
Company, ran aground early to-day
on her trip up the sound to Hartford,
and she lies on a sandbar at Goosa
Island off Norwalk harbor. The
weather is thick and foggv.
Two tugs are trying to pull her off.
She is believed to be In no danger,
and It is likely that she will be floated
at high tide.
Tree Play Scores a
London Success
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Sept. 6.—“Joseph and
His Brethren,’ already seen in New
York, was produced successfully by
Sir Herbert Tree at His Majesty’s
theater.
It is the first biblical play which the
British censor of the di'ama has al
lowed to be publicly performed.
Maxine Elliott, as Potiphar’s wife,
scored a triumph.
$87,500 Paid for a
Grain of Radium
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Sept. 6.—The Prussian
Government has bought a gram of
radium for $87,000 for hospital and
scientific use.
Professor H>s is making an appeal
to the nation to subscribe to the fund
for the purchase of radium, which has
already reached $200,000.
Black Hand Beheads
Two Alpine Climbers
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, Sept.
6 —The headless trunks of two Italian
Alpine climbers weer found near
Simplon Pas?.
It is believed the two were victims
of the “Black Hand.”
No Horses in ’63 in
Chicago, Prediction
CHICAGO. Sept. 6.—There will be
no horses in use in Chicago 50 years
from now if the annual decrease of
2 per cent in the use of animals in
this city continues, expert.? declare.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Rain Saturday and
probably Sunday.
SYEAR DELAY
SWEPT BY
Conflagration Rages for Nine
Hours—Main Business Section
Saved—Houses Dynamited.
HOT SPRINGS, ARK., Sept. 6.—
With 2,000 persons homeless, many
of them penniless, and a property loss
estimated at $10,000,000, the greater
part of Hot Springs to-day is a mass
of smoking ruins from fire ttyat for
nine hours swept an area •from seven
to ten blocks in width, in the eastern
portion of the city.
No fatalities have been reported.
But few of those whose homes were
destroyed saved any valuables.
The fire originated in a negro house
about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and
spent itself only when It reached the
foot of West Mountain, the Southern
extremity of Hot Springs, at mid
night.
Hotels, manufacturing plants and
many fine residences were destroyed,
and for a time it appeared as if the
entire city was doomed. The hard
est fight was to prevent the flames
from gaining a headway on Central
avenue, the principal business street.
In this fight dynamite was used to
wreck buildings.
Militia on Duty.
State militia are to-day patrolling
the burned district. United States
soldiers may be sent here from Little
Rock to protect property in the Gov
ernment reservation. Governor Hays
arrived about midnight and ordered
the State military patrol. In addi
tion, 250 men were sworn in as po
licemen to patrol the district. Thus
far there has been no disorder.
All the homeless have been cared
for temporarily, and the many offers
of assistance from the outside will
probably not be necessary, as tha
citizens of Hot Springs declare they
can handle the situation.
The Little Rock fire department re
sponded to a call, for assistance on
board a special train, and did good
work in the fight, but it was several
hours before the efforts of the fire
fighters made any impression, and
then only In preventing the spread
to Central avenue.
Public Buildings Burn.
Among the buildings destroyed were
the city light, water and power plants,
the county courthouse, the Park.
Princess and Moody Hotels, City High
School. Iron Mountain Railroad sta
tion and shops, Ozark Sanitarium,
People’s Laundry, Crystal Theater
and Bijou Rink, besides 100 or more
smaller business buildings.
During the fire a gale was blowing,
at times reaching a velocity of 40
miles an hour, thus making the fight
more difficult. As the firemen were
dynamiting a house the flames, forced
by the gale, would leap over them and
ignite a dozen other houses. After
the destruction of a number of build
ings in an attempt to turn the fire
toward South Hot Springs, the course
was changed to such an extent that
it finally spent itself against West
Mountain, and the business section
was saved.
Gets Old Master for
20 Cents; Asks $1,365
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MADRID. Sept. 6.—In an antiqua
ry’s shop window there was exhibited
a painting and a sign reading “Au
thentic picture by Goya. 7,000 pesetas
($1,365).”
A poor woman, passring by, observed
the sign and at once caused a dis
turbance which attracted a big crowd.
She declared that the antiquary who
now asks such a round sum for the
picture. Tuesday bought it from her
for 20 cents.
Lawyers’ Coup May Force Test of
Constitutionality of Canadian
Deportation Law.
COATICOOK. QUEBEC, Sept. 6.—
One year's time m^y elapse before it
is legally determined whether Harry
K. Thaw, the fugitive from the Mat-
teawan (N. Y.) Asylum for the Crim
inal Insane, Is to be deported frcfin
Canada or is to receive the protec
tion of its laws. Assurance to this
effect was given to Thaw to-day by
his counsel.
Thaw Is certain that he has won a
long delay and immediately after
breakfast began packing for the Jour
ney to Montreal, where he must be
produced in the Supreme Court on
September 15. when arguments will
be delivered on the writ of habeas
corpus secured by J. N. Greenshlelds
and N. K. La Flam me from Justices
Corss and Gervais in the Court of
Appeals.
Coup a Legal Masterpiece.
It had been suppostfA that Green-
shields and LaFlamme had withdrawn
from the case, seeing nothing but de
feat. but their retreat was only a
masterly piece of strategy by which
the doors may have been opened for
a test of the constitutionality of the
Immigration law governing deporta
tion.
The fugitive was not certain when
he would be taken to Montreal, but
he presumed that no time would be
lost, and he said he was ready to
make the trip to-day. In fact, Thaw
welcomed the change of surround
ings, although he had been touched
the evidences of friendship shown for
him here.
Thaw undoubtedly is a popular Idol
here. Crowds surround his quarters
In the immigration detention room
all the time. So high has feeling
been running that a force of uni
formed Montreal police was sent here
to-day to remain as long as Thaw
does.
Officials realize the pro-Thaw peo
ple only need a leader to “start some
thing.’’ Worked up to the proper
pitch, they undoubtedly would at
tempt to storm the Immigration build
ing and release Thaw.
Jerome Hearing Postponed.
Complications have been added t.>
the general aspect of the Thaw case
by the events subsequent to the ar
rest of William Travers Jerome, ex-
District Attorney of New York, on a
charge of gambling. Mr. Jerome was
to have been arraigned before Mag
istrate McKee at 9:30 this morning,
but Hector Verrett, acting for the
New York lawyer, had the hearing
postponed for a week.
Meantime Mr. Jerome left Canada,
going to Nortons Mills, Vt. In a
sense, Mr. Jerome thus made of him
self a fugitive from Justice, reversing
the position of Thaw, who is a fugi
tive in Canada.
Influence has been brought to bear
upon Crown Prosecutor A. C. Hanson
to have the charge against Mr. Je
rome, who is at liberty on bond,
dropped.
The crown prosecutor refused to do
this.
Says Jerome Set Bad Example.
“I have received many complaints
about the open gambling of Mr. Je
rome and I consider it my duty to
push this case against him,” said the
prosecutor. “He was setting a bad
example. Every one could see him
and his companions playing.”
This Is a sort of puritanical com
munity and gambling is looked upon
as a serious offense.
Thaw had double cause for elation.
He showed by act and utterance that
he is enjoying the discomfiture of the
prosecutor. In the first place he has
gained a notable point in obtaining a
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Fitzgerald Family
Offers to Adopt‘Joy,’
Atlanta Foundling
“Joy.” the young autocrat of the
Home for the Friendless, has a nice
home awaiting him if he wishes to
accept the invitation of a Fitzger
ald woman who wrote to The Geor
gian Saturday.
A 3-w*ek-old infant, laughing and
cooing and having the gayest sort of
a time, was the astonishing spectacle
that met the eyes of James H. Mc-
Nesser, a real estate agent, when he
went home at 10 o'clock one night
about a week ago. That {spectacle was
“Joy.”
His story, told by The Georgian at
the time, attracted the notice of Mrs.
G. S. Graham, of Fitzgerald.
”1 am very anxious to adopt the
baby,” she wiles. "We have no chil
dren, and your story of this little one
appeals to us very much.**
Electric Shock Kills
Varsity Coach's Wife
ATHENS, Sept. 6 — Mrs. W. A Cun
ningham, wife of Coach Cunning
ham, of the University of Geor
gia athletic teams, was instantly
killed at her home last night by elec
tricity. „ In turning the switch of a
bathroom light she received a fatal
shock. Mr. Cunningham heard her
fall and. going to her aid, was him
self shocked.
Every effort was made to revive
Mrs. Cunningham, but without avail.
She Is survived by her husband and
two young children. She was Miss
Ada Ritter, of Kentucky, before her
marriage.
Charter Granted to
White Plague Foes
The Atlanta Antl-Tuberculoet* As
sociation l» now a regularly char
tered organization. Judge Beli having
Issued a charter for 20 years. The
petition states that the organization
is not formed for profit and that it
has no capital stock.
The inrorporatora are Hugh M.
Willet, Howard S Cole, Mrs. H. W.
Salmon, Mrs. Nellie Peters Black, Da
vid Woowdard, Mrs. J. Wade Conklin
and Dr. Theo Toepel.
Price to Push New
Law on Medicine
Bulletins giving notification of the
new weights and measures law which
went Into effect September 1 have
been Issued by Commissioner of Ag
riculture J. D. Price. Mr. Price de
clared the new law will be enforced to
the letter.
The law provides also that all foods
and drugs shall be properly labeled
as to character and contents, and no
misleading statement or claim shall
be made regarding the curative power
of any drug or medicine.
Jane Addams Invited
To Speak in Atlanta
The Atlanta Equal Suffrage Asso
ciation has Invited Miss Jane Ad
dams. the famous civic reformer, to
deliver an address in Atlanta, Be
cause national leaders have paid lit
tle attention to the suffrage cause in
the South, the Atlanta women confi
dently expect Miss Addams to accept.
The association has accepted an in
vitation to hold all future meetings in
the Hotel Ansley.
$12,500,000 Hotel in
Times Square, N. Y.
NEW YORK. Sept. 6—A new 21-
story hotel to cost $12,500,000 is to
be built on the present sites of the
New York and Criterion Theaters in
Times Square. Preliminary arrange
ments have already been signed for
the purchase of the property, the
price of which it is said will be $2.-
750,000.
The financing of the new venture
will be done largely with British cap
ital.
PENNANT
Crackers Clash With Pepper Kids*
Full of Possibilities—Rain May
Complicate Things.
Bv 0. B. Keeler.
Here are some of the thinqs that
may happen to the finish of the moat
desperate r^nnant race the Southern
League ever has staged:
Atlanta is scheduled to play
Chattanooga to-day, while the Gulls
play New Orleans to-day and to
morrow.
If Atlanta wins and Mobile loses
two games, Atlanta wins the pen
nant.
If Atlanta wins and Mobile wins
and loses, Atlanta wins the pen
nant.
If Atlanta wins and Mobile wins
twice, Mobile wins the pennant.
if Atlanta loses and Mobile wins
and loses, Mobile wins the pen
nant.
It Atlanta loses and Mobile
loses twice, Atlanta wins the pen
nant.
If Atlanta loses and it raise out
one Mobile game and the Gulls win
the other, Mobile wins the pennant.
It Atlanta loses and it rains out
both Mobile games. Mobile wins the-
pennant.
It Atlanta loses and Mobile plays
one game and loses, the race still
is tied.
It Atlanta wins and Mobfte plays
one game and wins, the race still la
tisd.
If Atlanta is rained out and th®
Gulls win and lose, Atlanta wins
the pennant.
If Atlanta is ramed out and tfr®
Gulls play one game, they win oi»
lose the pennant by it.
If the Gulls are rained out In
both games, Atlanta wins or loses
by to-day’s game.
If the sun goes down to*morrovw
night on a tied race, the league of
ficials will arrange a post-seasors
series to play off the tie—probably
five or seven games.
Elliott Dent, the Crackers’ bfl
right-hander, and Harry Covaieskiei
the mighty southpaw of the Loom
outs, will carry the money in the lasf
game of the season, on which d®|
pends the Crackers' chances for thJ
pennant of 1913. Chapman and Streaj
will do the catching.
And now we are all tied up wld|
the Gulls and the pennant race arW
Harry Coveleskle and (possibly) J|
D. Pluvius, whose middle initial
stands f)r an appropriate -word easihj
to be guessed if you ever watched 4
critical ball game being rained oat.
There are nineteen or twenty reap
aonable possibilities In the way d
what may happen to-day and to-moa
row, and a lot more unreasonnb$
tilings which still are quite pos»eibl3j|
In baseball, nothing Is Imposslbiq
The Crackers have demonstrate*}
that by the grandest fight any leagi*
ever witnessed in any pennant rhasJ
Pennant destiny, however, is
longer In the hands of the Crackeni
and the Gulls, one of whom is deal
tlned to win the race.
Gulls Grab Only Chance.
That situation—and the Cracked
were making the most of it—came d
an fend when the twittering and pop<
eyed Gulls made their escape fron|
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DENT CRACKERS’ HOPE IN LAST GAME
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NEW YORK. Sept. 6.—The Sun
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ing:
Mexico City, Sept. 5.—Senor